Additional videos:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fapboJAMGXc
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-xO9FNzz8

Description

Grover Hot Springs State Park is located on the east side of the Sierra at the edge of the Great Basin Province, characterized by open pine forest, and sagebrush and meadows. The park has a pool complex with a hot pool and a swimming pool hot springs, a campground, picnic area and hiking trails.

Grover Hot Springs State Park is situated in a small alpine valley of forest and meadows at 6000′. Best known for its hot pool that is fed by hot springs, the small campground is also a popular family destination. A trout creek runs through the park and hiking trails lead into scenic Forest Service lands. The hot pool and recreation pool are open all year. During the winter there are a limited number of campsites available first come-first served, and cross country skiing and snow shoeing in the valley.

Photos and additional info:

• http://www.onroute.com/dispatch/groverhotsprings.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Hot_Springs_State_Park
• http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=508

Nearest Address

Grover Hot Springs State Park
3415 Hot Springs Road, P.O. Box 188
Markleeville, California 96120
Phone: 530-694-2248
Reservations: 800-444-7275

Directions from Nearest Address

Located four miles west of Markleeville, at the end of Hot Springs Road, the park is in an alpine meadow and pine forest at 5,900 feet surrounded by peaks that just top 10,000 feet.
http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/g.cgi?fid=260971&state=CA&ftype=park

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

* Hi Season 8am-10pm
* Lo Season: Varies
For more information about the pool, please call (530) 694-2249

GPS: N/A

Map Link: Grover Hot Springs Map

Submitted by: Mike Dehnert

Get a parking pass for the day, and drive up to the trail-head parking lot (it’s a long way to walk). Then just follow the signs on the trail to the spring! You should be able to hear the spring rushing down the mountainside as you get closer. The water gushes out of a gigantic stone and has a beautiful ecosystem around it!

“Always extremely cold and tastes so amazing, fresh and clean! Enjoy this abundant high mountain spring source! Due to the long distance of foot-travel it takes to get to the spring, keep in mind that it would probably be very difficult to gather any more than a gallon of water per person (not including a personal water bottle).”- Tony D

Link to photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pressuretobear/3692405938/in/photostream/#/

Nearest Address

20022 Castle Creek Rd, Castella, CA 96017

Directions from Nearest Address

Take the CASTELLA Exit, then just follow signs to the Castle Crags Park

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

Unknown

GPS: N/A

Map Link: Indian Spring Map

Submitted by: Tony D

Epic, pristine and surrounded by trees super high up. Instant high from the vibes of the place and the water…

Nearest Address

Big Springs Road on HWY 49

Directions from Nearest Address

1.5 miles north of sierra city is a HUGE waterfall coming off the mountain, which is the run off, super clean land, from the spring up the mountain. The source is accessed by continuing down the road past the waterfall, turn left at Big Springs Road, and you will be at a T, go left, up a long and windy road to the very top, eventually you have to walk. there is a little pool, and you will hear, see, smell, feel, taste the water bubbling up from the earth.

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

24/7/365

GPS: N/A

Map Link: Big Springs Map

Submitted by: jessalynn

Description:

Website: http://www.carlsbadalkalinewater.com

Since 1882
Carlsbad Mineral Water Spa
A California Historic Site & Monument

2802 Carlsbad Blvd, Carlsbad, CA 92008
760-434-1887 www.carlsbadmineralspa.com

Pure Therapeutic Alkaline Water Made by Nature, Not by Man

Exclusive, therapeutic and hydrating Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ comes from an 1,700-foot-deep aquifer that originates near Palomar Mountain, about 60 miles east from Carlsbad. It takes about 9,500 years for the water to work its way through the substrata to our artesian wells just one block from the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, it is naturally enhanced with minerals that turn the water into a highly alkaline, therapeutic, and healthful water.

Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ is not filtered municipal water. It flows naturally into our artesian wells from the deep aquifer. It is sodium free, noncarbonated, not fluoridated, not chlorinated, highly alkaline (not acidic) and exceeds FDA bottled-water quality standards. It has about pH 8.7 and a TDS 50. Our well and vending machines are licensed by the California Department of Public Health and monitored and tested weekly, as required by FDA and federal, state laws.

Our customers feel the positive health benefits from therapeutic Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ and they drive as much as 80 miles one way. We have many customers from Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Alpine and similarly distant locations who make the trip because they have experienced health benefits from our alkaline water and how soft, smooth, clean, and delicate our water tastes. Thousands of local customers come pick up our alkaline therapeutic water from our convenient vending machines.

Carlsbad Alkaline Water ™ is so unique and therapeutic it has been proclaimed “The Most Healthful Water” by the California State Senate, and our artesian well and location have been designated by the California legislature as both a California Historic Site and a California Historic Monument. The city of Carlsbad has named the Carlsbad Artesian Well a Carlsbad Historic Site. And the “North County Times” newspaper has called our water “Eden in a Glass.”

Nowhere else in the United States can you find so unique natural therapeutic alkaline water with pH 8.7 that tastes so good and has such a positive effect on your health.

In fact, because of our water’s unique alkaline, therapeutic properties, the Physicans Formula Company of City of Industry, Calif., uses Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ in its high-quality facial products, which are available in stores throughout North America.

Delicious Alkaline Water at an Affordable Price – $0.50/Gallon

Many companies use chlorinated municipal water from drug and chemically polluted rivers, pass it through reverse osmosis, then bottle it and sell it as a magic water with endless claims at highly inflated prices. Other companies sell under the sink reverse osmosis or water coolers with built-in reverse osmosis for use in businesses and promoting it as a “Go Green” campaign. All the reverse osmosis machines waste 3 gallons of precious water for each 1 gallon of water produced to drink and the water is highly acidic, unhealthy.
(see on line “Drugs in Municipal Waters”) Cities across the country are implementing water conservation programs while reverse osmosis units and coolers with built-in reverse osmosis negligently waste a tremendous amount of our limited natural resources. You have the peace of mind that our water vending machines and our bottled water use therapeutic Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ from our artesian well and our vending machines are cleaned, inspected, and maintained daily unlike the water vending machines outside of supermarkets and other stores that are cleaned only every two to three weeks. These supermarket vending machines use city water with reverse osmosis that produce unhealthy acidic water.

Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ , healthful, therapeutic, and filtered by Nature, is available at our historic Carlsbad Mineral Water Spa at 2802 Carlsbad Blvd., Carlsbad, Calif., for only $0.50 a gallon at our self-serve, stainless steel vending machines. Before each fill you can give your bottle a sanitary ozone rinse for only $0.10.

You may use your own containers or get water – grade containers from us

1-gallon of Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ in our self-serve vending machine only: $0.50
White Water Non-Bacterial Dispenser with Counter Stand: $25
Floor Wooden Stand: $25
3-gallon plastic bottle with built-in handle and reusable screw cap: $12.
5-gallon plastic bottle with built-in handle and reusable screw cap: $15.
3-gallon glass bottle: $45.
5-gallon glass bottle: $50

Bottles with our famous historic label and already filled with Carlsbad mineral water are available at the spa.

For home or office water dispensing, we offer a special non-bacterial White Water dispenser with a counter-top or floor stand. Many people like to use this dispenser because it doesn’t use electricity, so it’s environmentally friendly. Unlike ceramic crocks, this dispenser does not allow the growth of bacteria that can be unhealthy and give water a bad taste.

We guarantee you’ll find our therapeutic Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ unsurpassed by any other. Try it. You will find that it’s the freshest, smoothest, most alkaline, hydrating and therapeutic water you’ve ever had.

Home and Business Delivery Available

We deliver Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ to homes and businesses in Carlsbad, Encinitas, Leucadia Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos, Del Mar, and Solana Beach for only $8.90 per 5-gallon bottle and $6.90 per 3-gallon Bottle. We don’t require any contracts for our home and for business delivery.

Naturally Carbonated Alkaline Mineral Water Baths & Spa Treatments

At our spa, you can relax in freshly pumped, warm, non-chlorinated Naturally Carbonated Alkaline Mineral Water in any of our three private, beautifully decorated themed rooms (the Caesar, Egyptian Cleopatra, or Exotic Oriental). The water comes from our artesian well. Our Carbonated Alkaline Mineral Water is used only for baths and has superior hydrating properties. Natural minerals in our water will leave your skin softer and fresher, and your whole body will be invigorated.

We also offer affordable massages, slimming wraps, body wraps, salt glows, and facials in a variety of packages. Complete information and photos can be found on our website. You may also call us seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 760-434-1887 or e-mail us and get more information about our historical place at: cmws@sbcglobal.net

Our History

Carlsbad mineral water was discovered in 1882 by Capt. John Frazier, when he drilled a well for his farm just one block from the beach. The water cured a stomach ailment from which Capt. Frazier had suffered for years. Intrigued, he sent samples of the water to two independent testing laboratories in New York and Chicago. The results showed his water was chemically very similar to the therapeutic spring waters found in a famous European spa resort that was at that time called Carlsbad, in the Bohemia, so he named his water Carlsbad Mineral Water. (Today, the city is Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad, Czech Republic, and is still famous for its therapeutic water treatments and spas. www.karlovy-vary.cz.)

One of California’s real estate booms was happening at the time, and Capt. Frazier plotted his farm for a city that he called Carlsbad after his Carlsbad Mineral Water that he found. He also started bottling his therapeutic water and selling it across the nation as (The American) Carlsbad Mineral Water. He built in 1887 beautiful Victorian hotel and spa beside his artesian well, and his guests who came from all over the world and included at least two U.S. presidents could enjoyed the therapeutic mineral water for drinking and for bathing, just as they would in the European Carlsbad. The Victorian hotel and spa burned down in 1897, but the water was continued to be bottled.

In 1930 luxurious Carlsbad Mineral Spring Hotel was build and the mineral water was pumped to the spa mineral baths. Many famous people and movie stars from Hollywood stayed in the hotel and enjoyed the therapeutic mineral spa. After the Great Depression the wells were abandoned because the owners lacked the funds for the equipment maintenance and the water stop being available. Later the wells were lost until it was rediscovered in 1955 by Kay and “Chris” Christiansen. The Christiansens wanted to restore the wells and revive the water business, but for various reasons and lacked of funds they could not do so.

In 1991, Kay met Ludvik Grigoras, and got him interested in helping her with her dream. Ludvik was very thankful for the once in the life time opportunity to work on this historical project. Ludvik had been born in Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad, when it was in Czechoslovakia and under Communist rule. He escaped in 1968 at the age of 18 and came in 1971 to the United States.

From 1993 to 1995, Ludvik and his wife Veronica worked at restoring and re-drilling the wells. In 1991, Ludvik had been instrumental in forging a sister-city relationship between his birthplace of Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad and Carlsbad, Calif. In late 1995, the mayor and city council of Carlsbad, along with an official delegation and with mayor from Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad, officiated at the formal re-opening of the Carlsbad Mineral Water. In June 1996, Carlsbad Alkaline Water™ finally, after an absence of 60 years, once again became available to the public.

For More Information about Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad Czech Republic

We strongly recommend that you look at the city of Karlovy Vary official website ( www.karlovy-vary.cz), written in English, German, Russian and Czech. The website provides priceless important information accumulated over 600 years about the health benefits obtained from using Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad mineral waters.

Nearest Address

2802 Carlsbad Blvd Carlsbad, CA 92008-2942

Directions from Nearest Address

N/A

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

Hours: Monday – Sunday 9:00am – 6:00pm Evening hours available by appointment. Open holidays, except Thanksgiving and Christmas. Tel: (760) 434-1887 Fax: (760) 434-9192

GPS:

117 25′ 48″ W 117 23′ 24 ”

Map Link: Carlsbad Mineral Spa Map

Submitted by: William Ferguson

Little Bear Spring flows midway up a mountain. If you want to collect you will have to explore the spring a little in order to find a suitable spot. Be mindful of the vegetation.

Nearest Address

Off the 3N14

Directions from Nearest Address

From Fawnskin, Head up 3N14 a few miles. When you get to Holcomb creek crossing, park and start to hike west on the PCT. You will want an adventure pass in order to park on the roads, you can get this in town. Go on the trail towards the Little Bear Campsite, and keep following it until you hit water. Head up the hill to find the spring.

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

24/7/365

GPS:

34.29694° -116.97389°

Map Link: Little Bear Spring Map

Submitted by: Wood

Description

Well pump about 6 years running, on a 10-acre ranch.

Located on a beautiful ranch, riding and lessons available, goats, pigs, camp for kids. Also a 4 bedroom ranch house available to rent, with the well water pumped through. Nancy is a hoot!

Additional info: http://bheauviewranch.com

Nearest Address

390 Cox Road

Directions from Nearest Address

N/A

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

By appointment only. Please call Nancy Tarsha 760.510.0029.

GPS: N/A

Map Link: The AWE Center Map

Submitted by: Rebekah

The spring comes out of a hose with a faucet that is in front of the coughlin big white house. There is a sign marking the spring. Why there is a hose and faucet is because the spring eye is a mile up the mountain.

Nearest Address

17894 Tyler Foote Crossing Road Nevada City, CA 95959

Directions from Nearest Address

From hwy 49 turn right onto Tyler Foote rd. drive 7.9 miles. The spring will be on the right.

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

24/7/365

GPS:

39.370675,-120.990855

Map Link: Coughlin Spring Center Map

Submitted by: evan strong

Private spring must email the owner for free access contact@illustrateddomain.com.

Nearest Address

20610 Aldercroft Heights Rd.

Directions from Nearest Address

N/A

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

Private spring must email the owner for free access contact@illustrateddomain.com.

GPS: N/A

Map Link: Myrtle Canyon Ranch Map

Submitted by: Sarah

This is an ancient native sacred place, now privately owned and run as a quaint, rustic resort which offers cabins for rent, camping, teepees, and more. Access to Heated Spring Waters is indoors in large, old fashioned, footed, iron tubs, in private rooms, Coed dry sauna, and outdoor cold plunge in the creek, into which the cold spring runs (verycold and the water is clear and dark amber. *Clothing optional facility. Reputed to have strong healing properties…I go whenever I am in the area. They also run a traditional native American Sweat Lodge with Walking Eagle, a Karuk elder and spiritual leader, by donation as in tradition, with a moon lodge to honor women who are on their moon time and cannot attend the sweat(see website for rules of conduct)

They offer more than i have listed, and book for retreats and special events, so it is advisable to phone ahead.

Full website here: http://stewartmineralsprings.com/

Nearest Address

Town of weed on north west side of Mount Shasta.

Directions from Nearest Address

Just north of weed on interstate 5, take the Stewart Springs road and keep going until you run into it…that is how I found it after a fellow hot spring lover told me about it.

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

12:00 PM to 6:00 PM , see website stewartmineralsprings.com

GPS: N/A

Map Link: Stewart Mineral Springs Map

Submitted by: Milinda Girard

Photo

Additional photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilburhotsprings/favorites/

Description

For centuries, those seeking the powerful healing properties of natural mineral springs have been drawn to Wilbur Hot Springs — in Wilbur Springs, California. Since long before the days of the stagecoach, the hot springs hotel has been a source of respite, retreat and rejuvenation for weary travelers. Throughout time, those who stay here leave feeling better than when they arrived – having warmed the body, eased the heart and replenished the soul. Today’s guests appreciate the healing waters and more – the hotel’s unique and rustic charm, the solitude and peace found here, the many opportunities to reconnect with nature, and taking part in enjoyable recreational activities afforded by the 1,800-acre nature preserve. Wilbur Hot Springs hotel offers the best for those seeking relaxation in a serene and natural setting.

Nearest Address

Wilbur Hot Springs Wilbur Springs, CA 95987-9709

Directions from Nearest Address

Coming from the San Francisco Bay Area Accessible via main highways, we are just 2.5 hours drive northeast of San Francisco, and 1.5 hours north of the Sacramento Airport. The most preferred, direct and scenic route to Wilbur Hot Springs from the Bay Area is Highway 80, then taking Interstate 505 north to Highway 16, and to Highway 20. From the intersection of Highways 16 and 20, (see map below) go west on Highway 20 for 675 feet and turn right onto Bear Valley Road. Follow this dirt road for about 4 miles and turn left to cross the historic silver bridge. Continue one more mile and you’ll arrive at the paradise known as Wilbur Hot Springs!

Vital Information

Hours Spring is Open:

N/A

GPS:

39.03862,-122.421234

Map Link: Wilbur Hot Springs Map

Submitted by: Michael Hraba